Opinion of Mr Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 18 November 1993

1 Original language: Italian.

2 OJ 1988 L 194, p. 10.

3 Council Directive of 5 March 1990 amending Directivi 88/407/EEC which lays down animal health requirement applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of deep frozen semen of domestic animals of the bovine species (O 1990 L 71, p. 37).

4 OJ 1988 L 382, p. 15.

5 Council Directive of 10 February 1992 amending and updating Directive 77/99/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products and amending Directive 64/433/EEC (OJ 1992 L 57, p. 1).

6 Judgment of 17 November 1992 in Case C-236/91 Commission v Ireland [1992] ECR I-5933, paragraph 6. See also the judgment of 2 August 1993 in Case C-9/92 Commission v Hellenic Republic, not yet published in the ECR, paragraph 20.